TREND REPORTS
Think the Global Minimum Tax Will Bite ? Watch the Stock Market
[Investing]
2021/06/08 09:05
A plan to implement a tax floor of 15% ought to represent a substantial hit to future earnings. There’s no sign yet that’s happening.There’s a simple test for whether international moves to crack down on tax avoidance announced over the weekend are going to be effective: Check the stock market.After all, at their core, the measures announced by the Group of Seven nations represent a plan to...
ZERO - Non Touch Contact Lenses
[Design]
2021/06/08 09:04
Zero is a concept non-touch contact lens, it offers a way where you can wear your contact lenses without touching them. No need to use hand or lens tweezers, it’s easy and convenient, avoiding contamination of your lenses by touching them with your dirty hand or tweezers that might cause eye infections. Zero provides disposable contact lens that solve environmental as well as hygiene problems....
(Infographic) Cooped-Up Consumers Are Chomping at the Bit to Experience Live Events Again
[Consumer]
2021/06/08 09:03
Forty-nine percent of music fans say they plan to return to experiential events within a month of being vaccinated.After the CDC’s recent announcement that vaccinated people don’t need to wear masks indoors anymore, the live events space is having its reckoning as it determines how to safely open again.According to data from experiential agency Momentum Worldwide, which polled more than 1,700...
(PDF) The Next Great Disruption Is Hybrid Work - Are We Ready ?
[Consumer]
2021/06/07 09:10
41% of workers globally are thinking about handing in their notice, according to a new Microsoft survey.- Junior members of the workforce, including Generation Z, are facing digital burnout.- A hybrid blend of in-person and remote work could help maintain a sense of balance – but bosses need to do more.- More than half of 18 to 25 year-olds in the workforce are considering quitting their job....
Fully Transparent Sky Pool Provides "A Swim Like No Other" Between 2 Housing Blocks
[Design]
2021/06/07 09:09
Architecture studio HAL has created a 35-metre-high transparent swimming pool bridge between two buildings at the Embassy Gardens development in Battersea, London.Named Sky Pool, the 25-metre-long swimming pool is made entirely from acrylic panels, allowing swimmers to look directly down to the ground 35 metres below.HAL designed the pool, described by the studio as the world's first, to be a s...
MIT's World-First Digital Fabric Can Collect, Store and Process Data
[Tech]
2021/06/07 09:08
MIT Engineers create a programmable fiber. In a first, the digital fiber contains memory, temperature sensors, and a trained neural network program for inferring physical activity.While the fabrics we wear today might keep us warm and protect us from the elements, scientists continue to demonstrate how they might soon do far more than that. MIT scientist Yoel Fink has been at the cutting edge o...
(Video) The Metaverse’s First Runway Show Is Here
[Business]
2021/06/07 09:07
The online metaverse and social networking site IMVU grew by 44% during the pandemic; it now attracts 7 million active users a month, most of them female or female-identifying and aged from 18 to 24.If you aren’t one of those millions, here’s a primer: On IMVU, users create personal avatars and dress them in clothes designed by fellow users—creators, in site parlance—bought with credits pai...
MedTech Synchron Raises $40M to Trial Neurotech That Helps Paralysis Patients Email
[Investing]
2021/06/07 09:06
Synchron’s Stentrode device is implanted into the jugular vein, through which it measures neurological signals to control wirelessly connected devices, allowing paralysis patients to communicate and perform daily tasks.After years of focusing on all things artificial intelligence, the buzziest buzz in medtech now centers not on robots and algorithms, but on the distinctly non-artificial abilit...
(PDF) Bain - The Future of European Grocery Retailing
[Business]
2021/06/07 09:05
Incumbents gained a four-year reprieve in the pandemic. Here’s how to use it.Grocery sales in Western Europe have risen to a level we only expected in 2025 after Covid-19 obliged many consumers to eat three meals a day at home.Grocers now have breathing space to reposition themselves strategically and retain their recent momentum, averting what could otherwise be a decade of profit erosion.Hyp...
